Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine RoundtableOnly one page penalized due to 12 megabytes of spam from 21,169 comments. Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center.
I have often said that until social figures out "spam" (fake profiles/automation, etc.the way that search engines have figured out link spam, social signals can’t be as relevant as we might like. As they get bigger, they must deal with a tsunami of...
Google: Disavow Links Even If Removed As A Best Practice – Search Engine RoundtableSays Google's John Mueller: "While it's really important for the web-spam team when processing the reconsideration request to see significant effort put into...
If no manual action was taken, then you'll receive an automated message that tells you that there was no spam action found on your site. Once that work is done, you'll then have to file a reconsideration request to get your penalty removed and...
Users of BOTW can be assured that the sites they find are great resources, with no spam or irrelevant sites. Best of the Web, a directory of all the content on the web, turns 19 on April 20. SEW spoke with BOTW president and founder Greg Harnett...
How do we, as search marketing professionals, defeat the legacy of spam? The legacy of spam didn't build itself. Spam was the unfortunate byproduct of these strategies, but we weren't yet aware of the implications.
Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. Ask the Ex-Googlers Anything at BrightonSEO – Linkdex BlogEx-Googlers Fili Wiese, Alfredo Pulvirenti and Jonas Weber talk spam, bad links, link building, content, social...
Competitor backlink profiles are often filled with spam, so it's important to evaluate each link before performing outreach. Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.example.com/, We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://www...
Otherwise, you run the risk of becoming a one-trick pony and looking like spam. What do Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn all have in common? The social networks all use metadata to pull in a preview of your content.
For example, exact match anchor text links in blogrolls, comment spam, directory links, etc. I thought to myself, was he using comment spam to gain exact match anchor text links? Upon digging into the ratings, I noticed a review that said, "profile...
And while there have been many examples of this being badly executed, with lots of site owners and SEO professionals complaining of injustice, it is clear that web spam engineers have collected a lot of information over recent months and have...
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. Bing hits back on AdWords enhanced campaigns. Lots of advertising revenue forecasts.
Sort out link spam. Point being, even with all Google's efforts to thwart link spam and manipulative link practices, paid links are still prevalent and still work. Now, the importance of on-topic links and contextual relevancy is really nothing new.
Google is growing market share and vowing to implement more changes aimed at reducing web spam and manipulative linking. But to the average small business owner these constant changes are mystifying or even maddening.
Forum spam This will be the first time that this many Meetup groups of marketing professionals, brand advertisers, agencies, and business leaders from the New York metropolitan area have converged at one industry networking event.
This will probably lead to some original and creative campaigns, but also to commercial spam on user-created topics, such as the Twitter trending topics based on jokes, that brands often use in a clumsy way to try and look cool," Gaudette said.
Another easy way to generate links to your blog posts in a way that isn't spam is via systems like Zemanta and other content distribution systems. Don't get me wrong, social media is a fantastic tool for marketing and can't be ignored (in fact, it...
The Penguin algorithm, initially released last April, was designed to reduce web spam and also hit website that had link profiles that appeared unnatural. You can expect another Google Panda update to roll out this Friday or Monday, according to...
SEO and Spam Well, if enough people flag them as spam, then perhaps Facebook will look into them, beyond that it’s a matter of increasing awareness of this type of trick. Simply fill out the Google spam report and let them deal with it.
It should come as no surprise that this seismic shift in content attitude among marketers is in lock step with Google’s aggressive crusade (verging on Draconian) to purge the SERPs of low value rank spam, and bubble up content of value.
